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New York, NY - Unintended Consequences

  • QED Astoria 21-27 23rd Avenue Astoria, NY, 11105 United States (map)

Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about what happens when you intend for something to happen, and end up with - unintended consequences!

Hosted by Grant Bowen and Tracey Segarra.

Doors at 7 pm. Show starts at 7:30 pm.

Stories by:

Rodolfo Moran - Ro is an award-winning empanada eater with a penchant for storytelling. His credits include Prose of Pie, Tiny Tales, Story Boom, Story Collider En Español, and producing the Westchester-based 'Say Word' show. He is most remembered for his groundbreaking trio with his 14yr and 3 yr old . They’ve since broken up due to ‘creative differences’ .When Ro isn’t telling tales, he is a social justice warrior for human rights non profits.

 

Shawn Musgrave is a lawyer, journalist, lawyer-who-represents-journalists, and somewhat recent transplant to New York. His work has appeared in The Intercept, POLITICO, The Verge, VICE, and the Boston Globe, among other publications, as well as in the Netflix docuseries How to Fix a Drug Scandal.

 


Bailey Swilley is a writer and comedian based in Brooklyn. In August 2024, she took two storytelling shows to the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and most recently, she won her first StorySLAM at The Moth. Since 2021, she’s hosted the monthly storytelling hour, We Love a Theme, in Brooklyn.

 

Jude Treder-Wolff is a creative arts therapist, writer/performer and trainer with Lifestage, Inc, a company that provides creative personal and professional development workshops and classes. She believes that creativity is a renewable resource that is the energy of change anyone can tap into for healing, change and growth. She hosts (mostly) TRUE THINGS, a game wrapped in a true storytelling show performed once a month in Port Jefferson, NY and brings storytelling workshops to the Sandi Marx Cancer Wellness Program and Seniors Program at the Sid Jacobsen Jewish Community Center and the Alzheimer’s Education and Resource Center on Long Island, the National Association of Social Workers in NYS as well as other social service organizations. She has been featured on many shows around the country, including RISK! live show and podcast, Generation Women, Mortified, Story District in Washington D.C., Ex Fabula in Milwaukee WI and PBS Stories From The Stage.

 

Aida Zilelian is a first generation American-Armenian writer, educator and storyteller. Her novel ALL THE WAYS WE LIED released last January and she has been a book tour as well as being featured in storytelling venues in NYC, Boston, Los Angeles and Montreal. She recently completed her chapbook of poetry DISSONANCE and her short story collection WHERE THERE CAN BE NO BREATH AT ALL. One of her favorite performances was at the Somerville Theater in Boston, where she told the story of her grandfather and discovering the lineage of her last name 'Zilelian'. You can read more about her at www.aidazilelian.com

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